Why Don’t Some People Have Rhythm?

[@kiyatheninja8044]

Im African American and I have no rhythm. Yea thats right 😩

[@ThornSleeping]

me too omg

[@ThornSleeping]

Hersheys B naw man I dont think you get it. I cant dance or sing or even beat a drum. Its just not in me. For the longest I never listened to music much less rap because I could never get into it. Only recently ive started listening to trap songs and some melodic hawaiian music but thats it.

[@ThornSleeping]

Hersheys B ???? I guess so but neither is Nicole Cox, my birth name. Also a lot of country niggas like me named Ezekiel aka Zeke. I would show u some pictures of me to prove a point but i sorta dont care but w/e. What songs you suggest?

[@ThornSleeping]

+Hersheys “DankBlock Baller” B naw you sorta dont. im 22 now going on 23 and i literally grew up in zone 1 atl till i was 13 and i still live in the west end to this day. never stepped foot out of the state. people just turn out differently in the same environments

[@rawyouout]

@Zeke Delacruz Damn I almost cried when I heard Bankroll Fresh died

[@tessat338]

My husband and I have been ball-room dancers for the past 14 years. We've found that, with practice, most people can pick up and follow a beat. In all that time, however, I have met one or two men who just can't follow the beat to save their lives. It is terribly confusing because the guy leads and the lady follows. If your leader is lost, it's hard to find the way. Sometimes I can back lead but as I usually go backwards, I can't see where we're going. I don't know about the other women, because I don't usually dance with them.

[@screeningmimi]

We've taught latin and ballroom and I am convinced some are rhythmically impaired.

[@KarimY-119]

i found dancing always confusing, i get lost in some side-thought and step on the other's feet. I havent danced in a decade.

[@GetWithTheFro]

I don't appreciate the advances your shirt was making on me.

[@RemitheRat274]

Lewis Belle 😂😂😂😂

[@pooploopify]

Black, Asian, and Latino people (South and Central American) tend to dance better because music with more percussion was/is more prevalent in our cultures. Especially black people, all we do is dance. Sure, it's a stereotype, but there's always truth to some stereotypes.

[@richmahogany1]

i notice you threw asian in there. asian music has a lot of percussion? and asians dance a lot to it? news to me. btw all music has a beat, doesn't matter if it's from a drum. the reason blacks and latinos will have a higher rate of good dancers is simply because culturally they like to dance more. more practice = better at. you will probably find that on average, asians are better badminton players and chopstick users.

[@pooploopify]

Ryan Couture Japanese Taiko music is an example.

[@richmahogany1]

Jarbon The Great I'm just saying, would you say that asians typically know how to dance more than whites - and if they do, they do it to japanese taiko music? camman, asians are the same as whites in this regard - neither of our cultures dance much.

[@pooploopify]

Ryan Couture Remember, Filipinos, Indians, and Indonesians count as Asian. And most of the music found in the different, previously stated cultures, do have more percussion than music native to most European cultures.

[@cloud-w2v]

Ryan... You are ignorant of Asian culture. Most Asian cultures have a set of percussion instruments. Look at a Chinese New Year Parade, you hear drums and cymbals pounding as the people gather and lions dance. The basis of Indian music relies on percussion instruments such as the Tabla. Percussion instruments are universal. Almost every country has their own set of them no matter the variations. As a Chinese, it's true that Asians (more like Eastern Asians actually) don't "dance" to percussion rhythms like other cultures do, but that does not mean it doesn't have percussion or rhythm. Some Southern Asian countries do have dance styles based on percussion rhythms... The reason we don't think that Asians use percussion instruments is the fact that we aren't accustomed to their cultures. We are more accustomed to African and Latin cultures... But it is quite true that Africans and Latinos dance a lot (often very good) to percussion rhythms.

[@TOB1ATCH]

Coincidence that the thumbnail shows white girls? I think not!

[@MrThePurpleDinosaur]

Neither do I. Of course someone did that on purpose.

[@McampanellaWork]

You beat me to the comment! You sir (or madam), have won.

[@dzarko55]

Or are you lying? No one knows but M'aiq.

[@Azmatic24]

Most white girls I know can dance. Us white guys are a different story.

[@TheTaytayExperience]

Oh, such a stereotype

[@luciellawliet]

I wonder if having irregular rhythms in your body, could correlate or contribute to being beat deaf? I don’t think I have a very good sense of rhythm or beat, or at least the ability to replicate that on my own (tho a few others would disagree). I also happen to get heart palpitations and have a pretty bad stutter, so that makes me question wether or not that those things could or would be associated with being beat deaf in some way

[@draegore]

Is this dudes shirt amazing, or a little bit sad?

[@SnottyBoscarino]

Depends on if it’s inside-out or not 😂😂love y’all....

[@amoeba1533]

You do know that SOME forms of dance are NOT rhythm oriented? Ballet for example - THAT is a more MELODIC form of dance and based on fluidity and grace rather than rhythm.

[@pheonix5597]

Viva!

[@jamesgallagher2434]

Ballet has rhythm and counts.

[@pheonix5597]

James Gallagher, No, ballet is MELODIC rather BEAT and RHYTHM based ( like all BLACK dance styles tend to be ).

[@jamesgallagher2434]

phoenix - classical music is melodic based that is correct, however it still has an underlying rhythm, and ballet still has an underlying rhythm and counts.

[@jamesgallagher2434]

I've danced ballet.

[@Fall_Spectacular]

So, you don't have an answer...what is the point of this video?

[@Shay45]

All this time I thought when someone said they didn't have rhythm that they just needed practice and/or weren't trying. Wow that's amazing

[@emmafrankly]

"They all had the clap." Sounds like a fun place.

[@Don_terrenos]

His eyes look fake lol like those glasses with printed eyes on them

[@imbored3138]

Rodolfo M you’re so mean 🥺🤣

[@jahi6736]

Ahaaaa

[@taheemlewis7627]

like he's doing a parody of a nerd with no rythem.

[@DamianReloaded]

I spent a third of my life thinking I couldn't dance until a girl taught me. Then dancing classes started to make a lot of sense.

[@voldlifilm]

I can't clap a steady beat to save my life. People keep telling me to listen to the rhythm in songs, but I can't hear a damn thing. It's all just noise. And mostly words. Sometimes I can listen to a song for years before I realize there's a certain instrument in it. Words tend to stick right away though.

[@gustano123]

It's just lack of musical (training). During my first years of piano lessons, I would always get off the beat pretty easily, so my teacher taught me to count every single time and match the count with the notes. It was hard, but now I can follow any kind of rhythm.

[@Jelisawesome]

I have the same. In music class my teacher was like okay listen to this instrument and I was like wait what, I don't hear that instrument anywhere...???? I also can't dance, it seems like my legs and my torso are not attached and my body moves very weirdly trying to dance in a rhythm. On top of that, I haven't been able to keep a rhythm ever since I was born. I've tried, I've practiced. I just suck.

[@loganx8566]

You guys are trying to listen to all the instruments in the song just listen to the beat of the drum in the song and dance to the beat of the drum in unison

[@RosheenQuynh]

I go crazy once I hear a song because the beat just latches onto me like a leech. I can't walk to a song without walking to the beat.

[@yurr7099]

I need to be tested. My high school English teacher noticed my difficulty in picking up on iambic pentameters, alliteration, and dactyls. She took me to the music department head teacher and he tried having me match pitch, jump on a beat, and other stuff with notes and octaves. In the end, they both agreed I was tone deaf and attributed it to me learning simultaneously both English and Arabic as a child and that caused it because I could think in both languages since I learned both at first languages.

[@maxlowthian884]

Tone deaf means you can't sing???? Having no rhythm means u can't understand rhythms not pitch. Pitch would mean you are actually deaf and can't differentiate pitches. All tonal sound will sound the same, so no you probs just have bad rhythm

[@TopHatKitty]

I had a boyfriend who loved making music and tapping to songs...but he was never on pitch or could keep a beat. I remember one time he was tapping to a song and I asked him what he was doing, genuinely not realizing he was trying to be on beat.

[@TheUltimateGC]

What a misleading title to this video. Halfway through the dude says "there's no explanation yet for why some people have rhythm and some people don't." WTF

[@daywalker________7677]

The real title should be "why most white people can't dance"

[@BlissfulSl33p]

Being beat deaf must be like being allergic to peanuts... You miss so much and i feel terrible for you

[@jordinstephens9355]

More like… you miss so much and you should really just keep trying

[@jamescarrot2813]

It's seriously a terrible affliction I can't even clap with a crowd I have to just put my hands together silently like a retard otherwise I will clap a 1/4 second late and draw attention to myself. Was the only kid all throughout every year of gym class that couldn't jump rope either no matter how many hours I practiced I would just slap myself in the head with the rope. If you ever have kids please just play music for them in the developing years. Just a few minutes a day will save them the rest of their lives in embarrassment.

[@jugarnaut40]

What about musicians who can't read sheet music? I love playing instruments, but I have to learn everything by ear or mimicking. Which means I can't play shit without KZbin, lol.

[@evanb.6150]

that's just a lack of music education

[@jugarnaut40]

I've had really good teachers. Guitar and harp/piano teacher taught me tons of theory. But I look at sheet music and it might as well be in Chinese. No matter how many hours I spend on it.

[@ayo__ayo]

You just haven't learned the notation to read sheet music. Plenty of musicians do not know how to read sheet music. Its a useful skill to learn because then you'd be able to show/learn new music without tabs for a guitar (not sure about anything else) more quickly. Its not a needed skill but it certainly is useful.

[@jugarnaut40]

I rarely use tabs. lol, I don't like having to read sheet music of any kind. I always go by ear. Just complete shit at reading sheet music in general.

[@ayo__ayo]

Yeah, I can only read sheet music to a certain extent. But for the most part I learn by ear and tabs... and my instructor.

[@ryanperson6307]

It never ceases to amaze me how many musicians I jam with fit into the category of those with no rhythm. Yet they still play on, unaware of how godawful they sound. And then I have to drum to their nonsense.

[@guppermusic]

Ik it boggles my mind whenever I jam with people. It’s like dude how do you not understand how completely off time you are 😂

[@justStardust940]

I bet Beethoven was probably one of those people. Rhythm is only a small part of music but a big part of dancing

[@orchidflower360]

So wish I could find a study that explains this.

[@guidethelight3707]

"It's an extremely rare condition" Alright but I'm over here struggling with the stomping and clapping thing to we will rock you I guess I'm more unique than i thought.

[@Djappyd]

as a DJ, i think i'm pretty good at keeping a beat, i can recognize the BPM of a track that has an irregular beat... not sure if that's everyone but i can

[@enriquemano4702]

Its because different races have different strong and weak genes. Black people happen to have strong genes for rythm and white people happen to have strong genes for developing much of the world as we know it today. Just like people of different races can look different, they also have different cultures because of the way they think, and the way they think is influenced by their genetics.

[@MaxContagion]

I have serious problems recognizing rhythms and notes. Even though I am pretty sure I can hear the difference. Nice to know it is being researched.

[@KylaA5952]

"they all had the clap"

[@Klepto84734]

0:44 "they all had the clap"? Lol

[@ToriAClark]

I'm far from beat def, I've been in music for pretty much my whole life, so I'm trained to be able to adjust for different tempos. And if you've seen some of the music I had to sing in high school, you'd know I'm good at it. But I also know people who just couldn't keep the beat.

[@bigredsoutdooradventures207]

A beat is a construct of modern man. Not everyone has developed a ear for it because music is not a necessary thing for life to continue. No matter what you feel. Nature does not care about what you feel. Get over it.

[@MrCrystalm8]

One's sense of rhythm is an ability which can be improved upon, can it not?

[@DamianReloaded]

It certainly is something that has to be learned.

[@MrCrystalm8]

Damian Reloaded Yeh, for example a drummers rhythm isn't naturally really good, they just practiced a lot. Also, dancing and rhythm are 2 very different things, for example my rhythm is pretty decent but i can't dance for shit lol.

[@DamianReloaded]

MrCrystalm8 lol, dancing is sorta like clapping with your feet and symmetry between the number of steps you give with one foot and the other. It's practice. I was taught by gorgeous Dominican gals, impossible not to like it and to not have fun doing it ^_^

[@movesguy]

OK, I am getting sick of these 30 second ads I can't skip.

[@themollymachine]

You have to grow up with music in the house. But even with that said.. you have to be a great dancer like me. Any time I go out I'm the life of the party and the best dancer. Life is rhythm

[@WILD__THINGS]

Its also about being comfortable enough to let loose. Anyone can look like they have no rhythm if they are feeling awkward.

[@FireCalvinMaster]

I play saxophone and I play sheet music well, but if someone tells me "Play G natural" I'd go to the back of my book and check what the note is what. I just can't see notes as letters.

[@KageRyuu6]

I wonder if he's always leaning to the side, or if his ears are just a lil off. Wonder if anyone else has noticed that.

[@CorbiniteVids]

Looks like both and his glasses are a little off. I kinda have that problem, my face is pretty asymmetrical. Not in any noticeable ways, but it often looks like I'm leaning ever so slightly to the side if I'm not.

[@CollinL]

Oh I get it the shirt is backwards so he can read it in a mirror for self motivation

[@kenttk421]

did he say "they all have the clap"?

[@stephenperry779]

I've got a great sense of rhythm...but I still can't dance to save my life.

[@benjaminholt6640]

This video is nonsense. Keeping a beat is a skill that that you get better at the more time spend working on it. It is not something you have or don't have. Even amongst professional musicians beat keeping skills vary tremendously.

[@mizzraika]

I'm a decent singer, as in I can keep a melody and take notes without a problem. The one thing that's kept me from doing anything with that "talent" professionally, is I can't keep a rhythm. I just can't. I lose it, I can't even clap in a rhythm and keep it up. It's ridiculous.

[@impjbtw]

1:31 born to dance. forced to have no rhythm.

[@jaxnean2663]

I myself cant synchronise my left and right hands to different rhythms! I just cant! So i cant play a piano or play the drums. Its annoying sometimes because i love music.

[@CaLemLiza]

they all had the clap!?!?!

[@seanhancock6664]

I've given up completely in dancing. I've left some many ladies stranded in the floor as I watched them dance on the floor. I'm a handsome, athletic good looking guy who cannot keep a beat yet I'm coordinated in sports. I have a beautiful running form just no dance form that looks handicapped at best. I can even do the quick feet ladder drills but I can't keep a beat whatsoever. I never danced much but a bunch of women recorded me and laughed their hearts out when I tried dancing with them. They said I was too stiff, couldn't keep a beat but it literally is very hard for me. I'd rather look dysfunctional on the dance floor I really don't care anymore. I gave up on dancing, gave up on dating or marriage. I'm sticking with sports!

[@leorawk]

this guy looks and sounds like Kermit, I can dig it

[@Alitari]

DNews Does it bother you that the backwards "You're Handsome" t-shirt could actually have them upside down and with the 'you're' at the bottom, so instead of just seeing it in the mirror, all you had to do was look down?

[@StarWarrior008]

I like this guy, keep him

[@chadsexinton]

This made me laugh for some reason

[@JF80001]

why do some people wan't to force you to dance, it's stupid

[@DamianReloaded]

Probably because it's the best thing you can do with a girl besides sex.

[@kotresh]

Hey , I'm very bad at keeping rythm and I also stutter a bit, I can't remember the routes very easily. Are these things corelated?🤔

[@c0host-m3p]

My old drummer didn't have rhythm. You'd be surprised how many of those exist... 0_o

[@caeruleas]

I liked how informative this was. Thanks!

[@juliantreidiii]

I (Julian) can't keep my own rhythm or follow a metronome. I also find a regular slow heart beat agitating. I have figured out at lest part of why. If any one out there is researching this I would like to work with them fore sheared credit on papers.

[@jean-pierredevent970]

I play the trumpet rather well but I would never make a career because I struggle with rhythm. A trumpet often has to play loud and without any hesitation against the beat in a very fast tempo and there is only one way to that.

[@TailRunnerOPSpec]

I'm not slow with rhythms, but polyrhythms just do NOT work well in my head no matter how many times I try (piano)

[@MarlonOwnsYourCake]

The thing is, I just went to a wedding where I was the only black person and I have a lot of questions about culture and musicology and I don't know where to find the answers.

[@thecreeperslasy]

i am quite a good drummer and deffonetly have no trouble keeping beet, but when it comes to dancing i am dreadful

[@eajoseph217]

@ 0:43, did he say "they all had the clap"??? Am I the only one who finds humor in this? :O :P

[@Melissa0774]

I'd like to know why some people have a sense of pitch and can easily figure out how to play instruments by ear, when most people can't do that.

[@lillymeter1715]

Does anybody how how you can help it? What you can do to learn rhythm even though you were born with no sense of rhythm? Because I'm pretty sure I can't sense rhythm at all and it always been a riddle to me but I' d like to change that!

[@gauravshinde6559]

I don't know a dime about dancing, even a single move is unable to be performed by me😢

[@aurora1704]

I always wonder how some people can't hear if they sing or whistle way out of tune...

[@davidtm7006]

did you guys license "shake it off"

[@NeonMansionOfficial]

"they all had the clap" really now?

[@dariuszmckenzie1446]

Thumbs up for that intro

[@ReneAlexisPenalozaMunoz]

I play drums and have a very accurate rhythmic sense. However, my wife does not. It's really funny to see her dancing to any music because she's anything but on the beat. Of course I never say anything because it doesn't matter as long as she's happy doing it.

[@Jiddy12345]

I am wearing that same shirt right now!

[@HunMin004]

I can't dance unless I have a football at my feet. Without it I am a man without rhythm. With the ball I am a ballet dancer. Everyone has their stage to be beautiful

[@Dalte97]

I love how the thumbnail is all white people

[@VasilikiTzalachanihappy]

People say i don't have rhythm in me but when i dance zumba i see in the mirror that i do have rhythm...why is that?

[@VasilikiTzalachanihappy]

Wysteria InBloom Well at first i won't dance till the beat turns up and then maybe i will start swaying my hips and my hand like i dance salsa or something similar or i would jump up and down.

[@aceofspadesz]

I have no rhythm. Clapping at concerts is incredibly difficult :(

[@SlugHatchet]

when I see someone who can't dance I get embarrass for them.

[@THEREALMRHALO]

I need to be tested asap. I know i have this for sure..

[@JesusPedroza]

Interesting stuff. I have some rhythm, but I still don't like dancing haha.

[@CaptainLuckyDuck]

Yay! Another question I asked!

[@jonkneemanable]

i can't dance :( if i could i would enjoy the hell out of it, but since i can't, i never do..

[@Jelisawesome]

same

[@MrMacGrungy]

My mom is like that. She doesn't know it though. She tries her best to clap with the beat and yeah...there is NO beat there.....and she can't sing. But she tries and that's all that matters :)

[@drew4567]

First off I love DNews, but this is the least informative video you guys have ever created. Please don't entice me with an interesting question and then, "...researchers still don't know why." -_-

[@Hero_Staroid]

All I could think about was Ross from Game Grumps while I watched this.

[@dumbledumb2585]

Theres a line in the script he didnt say.... ILLUMINATI CONFIRMED?

[@dumbledumb2585]

No 2 whole frames of Text!

[@templarkiller2926]

I can't dance too modern music or even understand it and it's just really annoying I'll relax with Mozart and Beethoven

[@TheFartman64]

I suck really bad at dancing, but I love it

[@grumpyhale821]

Dancing yes, no rhythm. I'm a musician, whom can keep a rhythm while playing. Does that just mean I suck at dancing?

[@haenz4080]

I love music, but I actually have no rhythm and it is really bad. I love to sing and tried so often to learn just simple dances and several instrumments. Everybody keeps telling me I have no rhythm - thanks to all does idiots that wasn‘t thankfull at all and hurt my selfconfidence when I was younger. I understand I may never become a great musician and thats ok but shut up and let me have fun at the dance floor. To all of you who have rhythm be thankfull for the gift god gave you, have a nice day :)

[@haloshadowsnipe3014]

Can't people who have issues with their beats just use a pacemaker?

[@grumpyhale821]

A pacemaker is a small device that's placed in the chest or abdomen to help control abnormal heart rhythms. How is this going to help?

[@SangoProductions213]

Cyrus Hale that one went right over your head

[@grumpyhale821]

No, a pacemaker and a metronome are not the same thing.

[@theeHeisenberg]

the grammar in the title of this video is bugging me... some people DO have rhythm. It should be: Why do some people not have rhythm?

[@calebhernandez8358]

He said they all had the clap 😂😂😂

[@Karuiko]

There's not alot of comments...

[@Gaby5011wastaken]

A study made in my hometown makes it to Dnews. No wayyyyyyy :DDDD

[@Hubs88]

Some people are just beat-offs

[@ShirmaAkayaku]

Play Space Channel 5 or the Rhythm Thief & the Emperor’s Treasure if you can't feel the beat. You could practice with that.

[@Liradu2]

I hate it when people have to clap in a certain rhtythm and they start getting faster... argh! It's not that hard to clap in the same rhythm!

[@Optimus6128]

Not a grammar nazi, but the title made me laugh. Not even sure if it's still correct though, but "Why some people don't have rhythm?" would sound better.

[@AaronLevyDrums]

This is false. The reason is because this is talking about “natural rhythm” and not “learned rhythm” People have all sorts of senses of rhythm. It doesn’t have to be musical. In the way we walk, in the way that we talk and converse and tell a story. It all uses rhythm. When we learn to walk and talk it’s all about developing those fine and large motor skills and linguistic skills. If we literally had NO rhythm, we couldn’t walk, our words and phrases would sound very jarring and disoriented, and we couldn’t sense time, literally.

[@llRoBoBinHoll]

My dancing is polyrhythmic.

[@CT-8024]

i have really good guitar rhythm. Dance, to me at least, holds no interest or advantage for me. I have never really taken a crack at it, so i cannot say that i can't dance but in the times where i have had occasion to dance, such as a prom or homecoming, i was onstage playing guitar.

[@SandBoxZen]

Knew someone who had it bad. Couldn't dance or carry a tune.

[@hellterminator]

The only dance I can do is the drunk giraffe. But that's cool. It's an awesome dance.

[@ohWAFE]

I'm very curious why so many black people have rhythm like as a black man... lol i can DANCE i have vids up and stuff but my brother....... Hopeless

[@LEGENDSUNICORN]

Sorry but what?

[@ohWAFE]

Oliver Martinelli Black people are known for being able to dance me and my family all can dance really good but my brother... not so much hes the only one out of us all that have no rhythm I'm curious as to why that is

[@ragostivemcreal617]

Yeah why do most of us have rhythm

[@str8todamoney]

***** umm what does being black have anything to do with it. Did I miss something?

[@alyssabergeron2441]

That's. Racist any race can dance and have rhythm just some people have no rhythm or can't dance great P

[@MarcusCollins69]

I don't like dancing because I can't

[@slimwon]

Real friends don't let friends clap on the 1 and the 3